SUSAN HILL’s long and diverse career will surely always be defined by The Woman in Black. 

Susan Hill

The revival of Hammer Films continues at an encouraging, and warmly welcome, pace with this chillingly effective tale of love, loss … and the recently dead, set in a small Irish village that provides the film’s title.

Hammer Films, that most British of outfits that brought us some wonderful – and wonderfully awful – horror films in the 1960s-70s, continues its revival with this second outing, though with the action moved from the foggy mists of Victorian England to contemporary New York.